External Commands not working

[John McGowan]

Ludse Verhoeven wrote:

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> You're right about this being a permissions issue; either make the 
> apache-user a member of the nagioscmd-group 

That was done and it's not working...

> or alter the group on the nagios.cmd-file to be group-owned by the 
> apache-group. Then it should work fine.....
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> Grtz,
>       Ludse Verhoeven
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> John McGowan wrote:
> No question about this being a permissions issue...  I set the 
> /usr/local/nagios/var/rw directory to 777 and it works fine... 
> Obviously i don't want to have to do that.  So for some reason httpd 
> either isn't executing the cgi script as nobody... or the nagiocmd 
> group that has nobody in it isn't working right...
> I can get external command to work if I do the following...
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> [root at gob rw]# chmod 777 .
> [root at gob rw]# chmod g+s .
> [root at gob rw]# ls -al
> total 8
> drwxrwsrwx  2 nagios nagiocmd 4096 Apr 27 15:29 .
> drwxrwxr-x  4 nagios nagios   4096 Apr 27 15:30 ..
> prw-rw--w-  1 nagios nagiocmd    0 Apr 27 15:29 nagios.cmd
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> Notice I also have to give world write permissions on nagios.cmd...
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> /John
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> John McGowan wrote:
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> John McGowan wrote:
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> Marc Powell wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
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> _admin at lists.sourceforge.net_ <mailto:admin at lists.sourceforge.net>] On 
> Behalf Of John McGowan
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 11:57 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] External Commands not working
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> The error I'm seeing  is in the browser...
> Everything else looks fine with the exception of the possible need for 
> a hard restart of apache.
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> That's a shame, because I did a hard restart and it's still not working...
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> Should I recompile with some debugging options or something to figure 
> out what cmd.cgi is having a problem with?
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> I just noticed a slight difference between before the Hard reset of 
> apache and now... I am getting a different error in the browser... 
> it's not complaining about the "stat" failing, it's complaining about 
> not being able to open the file.... Still doesn't make sense to me, 
> i've been staring at these permissions for a couple days now, and I 
> don't understand why it wouldn't work.
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> Just incase it helps I'm using httpd-2.0.52
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> /John
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